Prenatal stress, telomere biology, and fetal programming of health and disease risk

Science Signaling

Volumn 5, Issue 248, 2012, Pages

  Entringer, Sonja ^a,b   Buss, Claudia ^a,b   Wadhwa, Pathik D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL AGING; CELL FUNCTION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL TYPE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE FUNCTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MATERNAL STRESS; METABOLIC DISORDER; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL AGING; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TELOMERE;

EID: 84868280086     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.2003580     Document Type: Conference Paper

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